A time to have more excuses to stuff your face than any other time of the year. (With the possible exception of birthdays. After forty, the only way through a birthday is with spoon in one hand, ice cream in the other.)

This holiday season, however, I am offering you an out: A free copy of Wii Fit Plus.

In my never ending quest to be – if not thin – then at least thinner than I have been most of my adult life, I have tried it all. Starting back in High School when I went on The Woman Doctor’s Diet for Teenaged Girls (which involved eating nothing but oranges and hamburgers for a week. Really) to the low-fat hi-carb/lo-carb-high fat crazes, to relatively sane diets like Weight Watchers, or simply shutting my mouth every once in a while. (I’m writing a book about that one, it’s going to be called: The Get up off your Lazy Ass and Stop Stuffing your Face Diet.)

But the bottom line for me, a woman who has weighed more or less the same (within 5 pounds – other than pregnancy) for more than twenty-five years, is that I need to exercise to change my body. (or get Swine Flu. Neither a very tempting option.)

I have more excuses for NOT going to the gym than reasons to go there. I don’t have time. I have a headache. I have to cook dinner/go shopping/write a post/pull out my toenails with a tweezer. Basically, ANYTHING but exercise. But then this new crop of exercise games for the Wii showed up. The Wii Fit basically ruined any chance I had of ever having a believable, justifiable excuse not to exercise.

For those of you who haven’t heard of it (like, say, those of you who never read, watch tv, listen to the radio, or are anywhere within 100 feet of a child) the Wii Fit was Nintendo’s genius idea to make the already pretty good for exercising Wii into a true exercise machine. The Wii Fit tracks your exercise success by letting you set weight loss and BMI goals, and then letting you know who you’re doing. You get an avatar trainer. and then follow along with the Mii’s as you do a series of balance, strenght, or aerobic exercises. It’s fun, and it works. (Not that it’s the greatest workout ever, but it sure beats sitting at home and typing on a computer, which is what I’m doing right now. Yeah.)

The Wii Fit Plus, the latest incarnation of their already enormously successful game, takes it all one step farther. Now you get to choose your workout, personalize it, set how much time you want to spend, pick a pre-set routine, or make up your own. There’s a locker room, and more choices, more ways to personalize.

I’d do it more myself, but I have to cook dinner/go shopping/write a post/give away my copy. (full disclosure: it’s one of two free copies that Nintendo sent me. One for review, one to give away. And I’m giving it.)

So, do you want to get in shape without having to leave your home? Or, if it doesn’t really get you in shape, do you want to at least not turn into a total slug in this, the how much can you eat in one six week period holiday season?

Leave a comment below, telling me what holiday indulgence is your worst, and I’ll enter you to win a brand-spanking new copy of Wii Fit Plus. (please note: you need to own a Wii Fit Balance Board to use this game. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.) Winner will be chosen by random.org on Sunday, December 13th at 9pm. Contest open to US residents 18 and older.

Want more chances to win? Link back to this post on your own website, and I’ll enter you again every time someone links over. Tweet this contest, and include the hashtag #hip2housewife giveaway, and I’ll enter you yet again.

Hey, everyone could use a little flab insurance over the holidays. Why not you?

My worst problem is that my husband is away at Afghanistan and I’ll I do when I’m at home is sit in front of the computer and eat. Depression has set in. For some they stop eating for me I continously eat. I know I need to get up off my butt and do something but there is no motivation or drive to get me going. Maybe this would be the answer.

Worst holiday indulgence? Peppermint Jo Jos from Trader Joes. Really, could oreos get any better? And, maybe listening to way more Christmas music than a nice Jewish girl from Brooklyn really should. (but does it count if all the songs were written by Jews?)
By the way, love the name change on the blog!

Mint bark…..Hershey’s is now making kisses that are essentially kiss-shaped blobs of mint bark and they are heaven. I could eat 20 without thinking. i’d love to win the Wii Fit for my kids’ sitter who has recently lost 13 lbs and has 62 to go! She needs the indoor exercise to keep her going.

For the holidays it is traditional for me to cook all the sweets my grandmother used to, i.e., pecan pie, pumpkin pie, chocolate pie, pralines, fudge and fruitcake loaf. Therein lies the problem, cooking them and not at least tasting them makes a terrible chef! I also love making cut-out sugar cookies with the kids and decorating with icing.

Over indulgence in friends holiday get togethers is always my thing – hor d’ovoures (spelling) and such. But…we’re in a new state at a new base and in a motel with no kitchen while we look for a place to live…so my holiday overindulgence will likely be at the buffet we go to for Christmas.

my worst Holiday treat is the pies. I can really go without eating many cookies (maybe 2) BUT pie is my weakness. Pecan, pumpkin, or apple it just doesn’t matter. I also don’t make different treats all that much but sometimes I eat homemade buckeyes that I make about every 3 years.

Cookies and fudge. I’m baking and everyone I know is baking and we taste while we’re making the goodies and then we give them to each other. I love the holidays but I’d love even more to have a Wii Fit Plus after they’re over.

My worst holiday indulgence is for my dad’s peppermint bark candy. It is so addictive and the small pieces are easy to keep eating. By the time we eat dinner, half of the giant bowl is gone.
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Cookies are the worst. My mom makes these to-die-for cookies and I just have to eat a couple, and a couple turns into way too many more, especially when she sends some home with me. So please pick me!!

My worst holiday indulgence would be my homemade shortbread cookies….a lot of butter in the recipe. I even tried freezing them until I need them, which worked for awhile….until I discovered they taste great frozen!! Argh! Thanks for the chance to win Wii Fit, I’ve been thinking about buying it.

Please nobody laugh here….but my worst indulgence is cookie dough. I start of the holiday with intent of making dozens of cookies.

Then somthing just happens and takes over me. I start eating that darn dough and I can’t stop. By the time I’m done, we probaly have half the amount of baked cookies I had intended to make. And let me tell ya, my behind shows off my secret desire.

Grinch Balls…well, they are cornflake, marshmallow and butter treats (like a rice krispie treat), colored green and shaped into bars or balls. I make them for everyone and I can’t stop eating them this time of year.

Sweets, esp. chocolate cover pretzels. I would love to win this. I just had my hip replaced and the cold outside along with the weather, it’s painful. I’ve been told I should exercise more and this is a wonderful way to do it indoors. Thanks for the chance!

Mine worst holiday indulgence is cheese ball. As funny as it sounds, I am addicted! I will seriously steal the cheese ball from our holiday gatherings and eat the darn thing by myself (and they are not little cheese balls). 🙂

Holiday indulgences – the worst must be cookies because I love to bake. This year (so far) has been more under control. Parties, holiday cocktails, cheese spreads, special cakes, breakfast rolls, OMG the list goes on! It is a great time of year to spread good cheer and a few extra pounds. I would absolutely love a WII Fit Plus!

I know all about excuse after excuse and even after not being able to fit in those jeans, I still have an excuse. The Wii is very special so, all thats missing is the Wii fit plus.

We have birthday after birthday in November and December so I indulge alot during the holidays. My favorite around this time would be turkey & dressing. Any excuse to go to Libby’s or a Diner that caters around this nice meal. I love to eat! Just need to balance it with exercise so I don’t gain another pound in 2010! I want that Wii Fit Plus!

I always fall into the new years resolution mode…. I can eat this because I’ll change in the new year, lose weight in the new year, not eat that in the new year blah de blah de blah… yeah it never works, Soon I’ll be carrying around enough weight to be pregnant 3 times over.

Ouch. Too many desserts (My husband says it isn’t Christmas without fudge, son “needs” Christmas cookies, daughter “has to” make a gingerbread house, and my childhood memories call for fruitcake.) On top of that, I belong to a small gym (which I love) that closes over the holidays. Ouch again!

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